Examiner Sadie White

Grant ratio: 38.0% (32nd percentile in Art Unit 1721 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.99. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 38.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.99
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89130
Primary art unit
1721
Work group
1720
Technology center
1700
Applications
521
Granted applications
198
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3245
Supervisor
Curtis Mayes
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1234

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 37 49.7% 2.15
Group 264 46.2% 2.20
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.52 1,311 office actions across 521 applications
Applications with office actions 98.5% 513 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 8 1.5%
1 OA 147 28.2%
2 OAs 175 33.6%
3 OAs 63 12.1%
4 OAs 71 13.6%
5+ OAs 57 10.9%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 8.0% 2013 2014: 19.5% 2014 2015: 18.6% 2015 2016: 23.1% 2016 2017: 50.0% 2017 2018: 46.2% 2018 2019: 53.8% 2019 2020: 57.1% 2020 2021: 72.0% 2021 2022: 74.4% 2022 2023: 58.8% 2023 2024: 62.0% 2024 2025: 37.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20121000.0%
20132528.0%
201441819.5%
201543818.6%
201626623.1%
2017301550.0%
2018261246.2%
2019261453.8%
2020211257.1%
2021251872.0%
2022392974.4%
2023342058.8%
2024503162.0%
2025622337.1%
20266300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 513 0.0% 9.7% 83.8% 5.3%
Action 2 366 0.3% 4.4% 64.5% 29.8%
Action 3 191 0.0% 2.6% 74.3% 20.4%
Action 4 128 0.0% 3.1% 75.0% 18.8%
Action 5 57 0.0% 0.0% 75.4% 19.3%
Action 6 31 0.0% 0.0% 80.6% 19.4%
Action 7 14 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 8 8 0.0% 12.5% 62.5% 25.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.3% 1 of 342 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 1,311 office actions
Change +0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
7.3 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 16, 2024 16/764,769 Affirmed §103
Jul. 1, 2022 16/770,388 Reversed §112
Oct. 12, 2017 13/713,576 Affirmed New ground of rejection §102 · §103 · §112
Feb. 8, 2017 13/049,075 Affirmed §103 · §112

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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